Thursday, January 1, 2009

New Year's Prayer

Gail and I welcomed the New Year very quietly last night - with a few recorded episodes of 30 Rock. I'm lovin' that show. Tina Fey's great, but Alec Baldwin steals every scene he's in. What a big, puffy, expressive, funny, egomaniacal hunk-a-chunk.

It could be the effects of the last Christmas chocolate, but this morning I'm mellow, thinking about a year gone by and another year yet to unfurl. Out of that mellowness comes my prayer for this new year:

Dear God, thank you for the joys and even the pains of last year. In every event - happy or sad - you walked with me. In this New Year hold my hand and walk with me again through each fresh joy, each hope, each project, each friendship. And let me and those whom I love accept all that awaits us with trust in your care. Thank you for your love that has brought me this far, and thank you for your love that holds me in this new day. I am yours, put me to your work. Amen.

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Denny Way Rev

A 500-mile walk on the Camino de Santiago is a time consuming process that takes a person away from home and family on a spiritual trek for a month or longer. A much cheaper and easier way is to become a Virtual Pilgrim! That's what we're doing at First United Methodist Church of Seattle. Each week our Community Group of Cyber Pilgrims totals up the miles we've walked or run from our homes in the Greater Seattle area and posts those on a map showing our progress toward Santiago de Compostela, the historic pilgrimage site. When it's all done our virtual pilgrims receive our compostelas and share a paella dinner in celebration of fellowship, pilgrimage, St. James, and Spain. Follow our adventures along the Way!